Patching your JDeveloper 12.1.3 with SOA/BPM Bundle Patch 12.1.3.0.1

21Jan

NOTE: SOA Bundle Patch 12.1.3.0.2 was released June 2015, click here for an updated blogpost.

The SOA(/BPM) Bundle Patch 12.1.3.0.1 is available for download from http://support.oracle.comJust use the search on patch number ‘19707784’ and it will bring you the patch details page with the download (approx. 654MB).The patch contains lots of runtime fixes, but also some JDeveloper 12.1.3 bugs (especially while modelling BPM 12c).

So I started patching my own JDeveloper 12.1.3 environment using the OPATCH tool.

Extract the patch, I’ll use C:\temp\p19707784_121300_Generic\19707784
This folder is called ‘patch_TOP’ in opatch terminology.

Since I use Windows as local OS you will need to First open a command prompt with Administrator rights (right-click, run as Administrator).
If we don’t use the right permissions we will get the error: Unable to lock Central Inventory. OPatch will attempt to re-lock

First we set our ORACLE_HOME to the Jdeveloper 12.1.3 folder:
SET ORACLE_HOME=C:\ORACLE\middleware\12.1.3
And make sure opatch is in our path:
SET PATH=%PATH%;C:\ORACLE\middleware\12.1.3\OPatch
We browse to the patch_top folder:
cd C:\temp\p19707784_121300_Generic\19707784
And run opatch:
opatch apply